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Friday, December 11, 2009
Visual Baseball: Introducing the Rank-o-meter
Posted by Kevin Dame
Here's something called the Rank-o-meter. I'll start you out with one for Zack Greinke's 2009 season, which shows his ERA ranking relative to other AL pitchers. At a glance, the Rank-o-meter looks like a graphic equalizer and gives a visual indicator of performance (from hot to cold) over the course of the season. I've also included a Rank-o-meter for CC Sabathia for comparison.
Love it? Hate it? If enough people like it we may use the Rank-o-meter during the season to track select players, so please leave a comment if you feel strongly one way or another.
"The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing." - Edward Tufte.
Feel free to send comments, questions, and suggestions to Kevin via email.
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That is pretty cool, Kevin. When you compare the simple table to the rankings, you see some differences. Take a look at Sabathia’s ranking in August vs. September, for instance, as compared to his pure ERA. Big diff in ERA, not so much in ranking.
It strikes me that this would not be very interesting early in the season, but much more useful in the second half.
One thing: it’s easy to read the players listed below the highlighted pitcher, but not above. Could the ones above be a bit lighter so we can at least make out their names?